Wonderful 30 year career with BMO for Morrisburg Branch Manager

(SD&G) – The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is committed to road safety. As a driver, your actions directly impact your safety and the safety of other motorists.  With the Easter Long Weekend approaching and as the weather improves, the roads get busier.  Here are some important tips to remember every time you get behind the wheel of a motor vehicle:

Pay Attention to the Road.

• Distracted drivers are a safety risk! It is illegal in Ontario for drivers to use any handheld communication and entertainment devices (not exclusive to cell phones) while operating a motor vehicle. We have seen a decrease in the number of persons using handheld devices, but we are concerned about the large number of drivers who continue to engage in this dangerous activity.

Buckle Up – Seatbelts Save Lives.

• All Ontario drivers and passengers must wear a seatbelt in a properly adjusted and securely fastened manner.  It’s the law. Making sure your children are also secure in a properly installed child restraint is equally as important.  Wearing a seatbelt properly will dramatically increase your chance of surviving a motor vehicle collision.

Obeying the Speed Limits.

• Speed continues to be the number one cause of motor vehicle fatalities in Ontario. Slowing down, and obeying the posted speed limit, will reduce the number of fatal crashes and serious injury collisions.  Are you doing your part?

Slow Down or Move Over.

• Drivers must remember when passing an emergency vehicle stopped with its emergency lights activated in the same direction of travel, either in a lane or on the shoulder of a road or highway, to slow down and pass with caution. If the road has two or more lanes, you must move over into another lane, if it can be done safely.

Don’t Drink and Drive.

• Impaired driving continues to be among the leading criminal causes of death in Canada. The OPP conducts R.I.D.E. spot checks throughout the year to remove the threat of the impaired driver. Do your part by not drinking and driving.

Inspector Brendan MacDonald, SD&G OPP detachment Commander advises motorists that “our officers will be out in full force on our Provincial roadways this holiday weekend and traffic safety is in everyone’s best interest, lets continue to keep our highways safe”.

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A new restaurant option will be on the menu in South Dundas in mid to late November when Morrisburg resident, Bill Dillabough opens his Pizza Hut ‘take-out’ franchise in the Pinkus Plaza.

“My target date is November 30th, earlier if possible,” says Dillabough who has 10 years experience with Pizza Hut in Cornwall.

To be located at the east end of the Pinkus Plaza, Dillabough’s franchise in Morrisburg will be a ‘take out’ only.

“I will have a full Pizza Hut menu, but there will be fewer choices in some of the items. For instance, I will have Caesar salad, but maybe not all the other choices.”

Dillabough says the take-out menu will include Pizza Huts’ popular sides and desserts, pizzas, pastas and wings.

He expects to employ up to 20 employees and positions will be available for cooks, order desk receptionists and drivers. In-house and on-line training will be provided and resumes are now being accepted.

 “We will be offering delivery and take out, but there will be no dining in. We will be open seven days per week from 11 a.m. until closing.”

Pizza Hut take-out franchises are very popular in urban areas and Dillabough estimates that of the 11 Pizza Huts in Ottawa, only three or four are dine in. The take-outs are very successful he says.

“I will have all that Pizza Hutt has to offer, and will be operating on a personal and local level.”

Customers in South Dundas and surrounding area will be able to order online and through the Pizza Hut call in service, but there will also be a local number available to place orders. “You will never get a busy signal.”

The new Pizza Hut location in Morrisburg will be fitted with its specialized equipment over the next few weeks and with two ovens to be included, Dillabough says he will be able to put out 45 pizzas per oven in one hour.

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Officials and technical experts from Enbridge Pipelines Inc. hosted a public open house session June 4, at Matilda Hall in Dixon’s Corners to discuss a “relatively small, simple project.”

Michelle Wasylyshen, government relations manager, Ontario, explained that the $300 million project is relatively simple because it involves no new infrastructure, and creates no new environmental footprint.

Involved is the Enbridge oil pipleline, which runs through South Dundas, South Stormont and South Glengarry, approximately 10 km north of Highway 401.

Enbridge has applied to reverse the flow of Line 9, to allow it to bring oil products from the west to refineries in Quebec. 

Line 9 is an existing 30 inch diameter, 831 km pipeline with a current capacity of 240,000 barrels per day. It was built in 1976.

“This is a good news story for all Canadians,” she said, explaining that the flow reversal will mean more Canadian oil for Canadian refineries. 

Presently the flow brings outside oil to Canadian refineries. Enbridge’s customers want the change as the market is now such that Canadian oil sells for about $25 less a barrel than offshore oil.

Enbridge has also requested a 60,000 barrel a day increase in the amount of product that can be shipped.

The pipeline will carry mainly light crude oil, but some of the time could carry heavy crudes such as diluted bitumen, a type of crude oil sourced from the oil sands. 

According to Wasylyshen, Enbridge is careful to ensure that all products travelling through the pipeline are not detrimental to the infrastructure.

The increase in capacity will be achieved through the use of drag reducing agent and by the addition of new pumps, high flow impellers, replacement of piping and valves at existing pump stations. This allows for increased capacity with minimal requirement for new infrastructure and no increase in operating pressure.

While Enbridge is seeking these approvals from the National Energy Board, the meeting in Dixon’s Corners, and the others held throughout communities across the province, are not part of the approval process.

These meetings are part of Enbridge’s proactive approach.

“Over the last decade, we’ve transported almost 12 billion barrels of crude oil with a safe delivery record better than 99.999 percent,” said Wasylyshen. “The goal is to never stop striving for 100 per cent. Our goal at Enbridge is – and will continue to be – the prevention of all spills.”

In recent months, Enbridge has run several in-line inspection tools to provide data on the condition of the pipeline. Analysis of that data shows areas of the line where further inspection is required. Where those integrity digs are required, excavations, examinations and repairs, if necessary, will be done. 

There will be 32 of those digs taking place across South Dundas, 26 in South Stormont and 27 in South Glengarry.

Shaun Dawe, a technical expert with Enbridge explained that this number of digs is not out of the ordinary. According to Dawe, pipelines don’t necessarily have a lifespan. “They are managed to have an indefinite lifespan, though I wouldn’t say infinite,” he explained.

The actual excavations, examinations/repairs are expected to begin mid to late August and carry through to the end of the year.

Pipelines are subject to municipal property taxes. In 2012, Enbridge paid property taxes of $296,000 to South Dundas, $302,000 to South Stormont and $303,000 to South Glengarry.

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